Hi everybody. I believe I found an incoherency which seems to have gone unnoticed, about Iceweasel. I emerged www-client/mozilla-firefox with USE=iceweasel and LINGUAS=it in my make.conf. So, after a somewhat long build (I know, I know, the handbook suggests using the -bin ebuild, but I only do that with openoffice), I got my Iceweasel ready. When launched, though, the title bar displayed “Mozilla Firefox”; it took me a while to figure I could try disabling the selected (Italian) language pack. After doing so and restarting it, the UI of course turned English, but the title bar correctly read “Iceweasel”. Since I know the Iceweasel I’m talking about is from Debian, I went on their web site and downloaded the latest stable language pack for Iceweasel (found using http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=iceweasel), which turned out to properly contain “Iceweasel” in the (few) places where “Firefox” or “Mozilla Firefox” would otherwise be. So I looked at the mozilla-firefox ebuild, and turns out it completely disregards USE=iceweasel when looking for language packs; that is, it just downloads the official ones (from “http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${PV}/linux-i686/xpi/${X}.xpi”), saves them as “${P}-${X}.xpi”, and then installs the .xpi files. This way the Iceweasel branding is completely lost, except for the icons and the GNOME menu entry. I then compared the installed language pack with the one from Debian (which worked perfectly, but was one sub version behind - 3.0.12 vs. 3.0.13); the differences were so minimal that I decided to build myself a script to apply the changes to an already-installed official language pack. Now, while this works, I have two questions: * Is this important enough for the www-client/mozilla-firefox maintainers to care and integrate the script as part of a post-build emerge step? * How come no one noticed/complained before? Is it because everyone just installs mozilla-firefox-bin (which doesn’t offer USE=iceweasel)? Or is it just that no one bothers to add USE=iceweasel? (Which actually on Gentoo isn’t necessary at all, being a source-based distribution.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. LINGUAS=<any non-English> USE=iceweasel emerge www-client/mozilla-firefox 2. Run firefox (Iceweasel), notice “Mozilla Firefox” in the title bar. 3. Tools » Plugins » Languages » Disable (all of them), restart when prompted. 4. Notice “Iceweasel” in the title bar (and the English UI). Actual Results: Localization per LINGUAS doesn‘t take USE=iceweasel into account. Expected Results: USE=iceweasel honored whether or not using language packs from LINGUAS. The Firefox ebuild is www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.13; however I’m quite confident this has happened with any past ebuild. I did not try with unstable versions. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T5550_@_1.83GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/store/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus dga dri dvd dvdr encode exif fbcon ffmpeg fontconfig ftp fuse gd gdbm gif gimp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv ieee1394 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms lm_sensors lzma matroska mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pch pcmcia pcre pdf perl png posix pppd python readline reflection samba sdl session sharedmem smp sockets spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg sysfs syslog sysvipc taglib tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi x86 xattr xorg xpm xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 202712 [details] Replaces “Mozilla Firefox” and “Firefox” to “Iceweasel” in an already installed language pack, with results similar to what Debian does for their iceweasel-i10n-* packages. This script can easily be run by the ebuild post-build step, once for each language pack, after cd’ing into each pack’s chrome directory.
Icecat is in the mozilla overlay, please test with it, it has support to rename the language packs and will be used to replace iceweasel useflag here in next few days.
Iceweasel useflag has been drop, in favor of icecat. It is already in the tree and will propogate to the mirrors shortly.
